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Chicago examiner thursday Chicago july 17 1913 thursday registered in u s patent office price one cent ffgk'&ses vol xl no 178 a m mayor insists aldermen end useless delay on the subway demands instant action by the council committee on the 130,000,000 ordinances for people's vote in the fall harrison prepares two bills and declares he will not take the responsibility for delay dock plan is ready mayor harrison having carried to the very verge of completion his plan for hhe purchase of the rights of the Chicago canal s dock company and the adoption t>f his harbor plan yesterday started after the council's local transportation com mittee and demanded instant action on the subway i am now going to insist that yon act on these subway ordinances without any further monkey jusiness he told the committee the mayor has been working hard to pet into form two ordiuances to be sub mitted to the people at the spring elec tion from which they may take their choice one provides for subways in the downtown district ouly the other for a comprehensive subway based on the city's needs for many years to come and to cost i:_o,ooo,coo capitain seeks delay aidermau capitain voiced a desire for further delay to get the report of the mjpervising engineers which is expected to be ready iu the fall this stirred the mayor up still more the subway project has beeu before you gentlemen for years he said we have chased up hill and down lale and after all this time we find ourselves right back where we started ever since i have been in office i have urged this committee to draft alter native ordiuances and let the people take their choice the committee seemed un able to draw the ordiuances so i had j them drawn myself having drawn them i am going to in sist that you act on them without any more monkey business i don't intend co have it said that i was the cause of the failure if the subways are not built the administration will uot be to blame â€” that will be plain before i get through if you wait until fall for that en gineer's report these ordinances cannot be submitted to the people until 1915 or 1927 or more likely until we are all ly ing iu graceland or calvary cemetery yield to mayor after devoting the afternoon to consid ering the mayor's comprehensive subway system it was decided to refer both ordi nances to a subcommittee of whieh alder man block will be chairman corporation counsel yesterday prepared a new ordinance designed to compel the â€¢ surface and l cars and steam surbur ban trains to provide seats for all passen gers the ordinances recently passed were held unconstitutional by he courts chairman littler of the committee on harbors wharves and bridges announced yesterday that his committee will to-day report favorably on the mayor's plan and that without a doubt the council will adopt it monday so that the harbor af fair is off the mayor's hands all the members of our committee are ln favor of paying the dock company its price 300,000 said aldirnan littler mrs f e musgrove who sued dr g e fosberg her brother-in-law for 50,000 for alleged de famation of character to end hypnotic spell she says he has over his wife u s examiner run down by automobile socked unconscious by j a pat terson's car in state street ,'. e settle jr special examiner for interstate commerce commission rings at the federal buildiug was ack and injured last night by au auto obile at south state street and jack boulevard lc was unconscious when friends ebe hiiu and was token to st luke's spital thera he revived and later s removed to ills rooms at the con ss hotel he automobile war owned auu oper il by j a patterson 1025 north ty-srst avcuue he stopped his ma ne and removed mr settle to the hos al icorgo sutton a shorthand reported the interstate commerce cowraumlon i a gu.-kt ::! tin h..t_j 5 jul 4.c cpaajp s â– ;',._Â« 1 the late br â€¢ neaped sues doctor to end spell over his wife sister-in-law asks 50,000 for al leged defamation of character dr g e fosberg 321 kimbark ave nue yesterday was sued for 50,000 for alleged defamation of character by his sister-in-law mrs f e musgrove uu2 stewart avenue she admits she has small hope of win nivg her suit but hopes to turn the light on the doctor's past and break what she declares is a hypnotic hold he bas ou his wife dr fosberg attained considerable pub licity several days ago in what is called the red mull escapade at the fifty-third street station of the Illinois central railroad he met one of the most beautiful woiren i ever saw said mrs fosberg she was dressed all iu red mull the affair grew so excitiug that the police had to interfere and they took two revolvers from the doctor boss cox freed of bank fraud charge case against former olitical leader is dismissed cincinnati 0 july 16 judge cald well in the common pleas court to-day dismissed the case against george b cox the former political leader cox was on trial on a charge of misap plying 115,000 of the funds of the cin cinnati trust company the trial had been u progress three weeks when at the conclusion of the state's testimony attorney dinsmore for cox asked for au instructed verdict of not guilty kaiser's son-in-law near death by train berlin july 16 â€” prince ernest of cumberland who recently married the kaiser's only daughter narrowly escaped death to-day at rathcuow where he has just poincd his regiment the prince leading his troop to exer cise was crossing a railroad when an ex press approached the horses plunged but the prince managed to pull him orf the track and halt the troop while the train passed missing his charged by inches woman's civic council points cooper report decides to circulate a pamphlet | containing results of in vestigation ' i public to get the facts s i i club startled by revelations de fense claims law and not ' court is to blame the woman's civic council of Chicago which has been investigating the record of judge william fenimore cooper lo his ' conduct of cases involving attacks on children and women met last night it was decided that the best method of making public the result of their investi gation is to issue the record in pamphlet form formal action was taken author izing the publication of such a document and instructions isued that it be distrib uted in every civic and philanthropic so ciety or institution throughout the city calls criticism just we have made a careful and unbiased investigation into fifty-three cases involv ing attacks on young girls said chair man dr lillian e thompson every one of these all tried before judge cooper has been the subject of com plaint and we have discovered justly so it is a record to cause the good women of Chicago fo shudder the mothers of the city have uot the power of the recall fteuher can they recommend punishment but they can guard against the future the motion that a summary of judge coopers record iu these cases be made public in pamphlet form wah made by mrs catherine rutherford lt received instant indorsement and when put to a vote was passed unanimously what bas takeu place iu the past can not be helped said mrs rutherford we can do something to safeguard the future rt i our duty to inform those who are interested in bringing to jus tice those who attack helpless children the best war to accomplish this result is to expose htose courts which have shown themselves indulgent to such of fenders i move that we publish a pamphlet embodying judge cooper's rec ord blame put on laws mrs frederick h green a member of the council severely criticised mrs ger trude howe britton ot the juvenile court can mrs britton explain why she came to the defense of the negro who attacked the seventy-three-year-old wom an mrs britton holds a position where justice is expected of her by those in every walk of life judge cooper ignored an appeal made by the council at a previous meeting that he make answer to the charges against him however at last night's neeting a document was submitted in lis defense by mrs blanch grier a stenographer sometimes employed in judge cooper's court it reviewed ni detail some of the fifty-three cases of which the civic coun cil has complained it was remarked that mitigating circumstauces were used in place of outright denials the trouble is not with the courts concluded mrs grier in her document but with the laws which ihey must ad minister it is my opinion that judge cooper dictated that document declared mrs green according to chairman thompson the council will continue its activities and ! make an investigation into the records of â€¢ other courts bridges is poet laureate special cable to the examiner london july ig the new british poet laureate is dr robert bridges who was appointed by premier asquith to-day to take the place of the late alfred aus tin besides being a poet and literary msn dr bridges practiced medicine for many years he is sixty-eight years old agreement reached to retire u s 2s currency bill probably to be amended to suit mcadoo's plan washington july 16 an agree ment has been reached by the majority of the house banking and currency com mittee to amend the money bill in hoe with secretary mcadoo's suggestions so as to retire the government 2 per cent bonds within twenty years at he rae of 5 per cent a year the amount outstanding every year shall retain circulating privileges that is national banks may issue currency against them the 2 per cent bonds retired each year however shall be replaced with 3 per cent bonds without this circulating privilege it wa salso agreed that the government revenue from the operations of the fed eral reserve liakuing system created by the bill should be set apart to redeem the 2 and â€¢" per cent bonds mob drives forty japs from camp threaten hanging if they return orientals to appeal steamboat springs col july 16 â€” a mob of one hundred men working ou the moffat road attempted to run forty japanese labcrers from the grading camp to-day - the japs were brought here from denver and had been housed in box cars at the lower end of town the mob went to the place three of them impersonatting officers for the pur pose of gaining entrance to the cars as soon as the doors were thrown open the mob poured into the cars with ropes slugs and revolvers ordered the japs to dress and leave the mob conducted the japs two miles east of town and told them that if they returned ropes would be used to-night sh_iÂ»fr m_ivington arrested the leaders the japanese will appeal marshall to return his borrowed baby vice president will take young ster back to its parents washington july 16.-there is a weeping and walling in the marshall household and the vice president has lost much of his accustomed cheerfulness for the borrowed baby thomas mar shall sutherland is going home baby sutherland has been for two mouths the light and sunshine of the vice presidential apartment but now he misses mama and mama misses him so that reluctantly the vice president and mrs marshall are going to take him to berkley springs md and return him to his parents the itev dr and mrs a d sutherland every day the vice president and the borrowed baby have been a prett ysight roaming about the capitol king finds lost ms heeds museum order british ruler receives peremptory requsst for valuable document special cable te the examiner london july 16 an order from the british museum asking king george to return at once a borrowed manuscript worth over a quarter of a million dollars came to light to-day when the king after spending 150 for the expenses of mes sengers recovered the manuscript and turned it over to the museum authorities the manuscript is a history of prus sia written in the fourteenth century the english sovereign has the exclu sive privilege of taking books from the museum any volume obtained by him however must be returned within three days and the grand duke of mecklen burg-strelitz uuawarc of this rule had borrowed it friends to bury girl suicide shun mother body of parent blamed for death to be given college mabel shultz who drowned herself last week has found friends iu death and will be given fitting burial but the body of her mother who killed herself after seeing her dead daughter will be given to medical students rela tives and friends bitter because they say she caused the girl to end her life re fused yesterday to provide for a funeral for the mother mabel's friends where she worked yes terday raised money for a grave iu oak nidge cemetery william unity manager of the western casket & undertaking company will donate the shrond and coffin imperator trip for kaiser german emperec expected to visit canary islands on voyage special cable to the examiner ma i ><_ 1 1 >. july hi â€” a clegiam from tciiciifi'r today stated lliat e i.peror wil | ham probably will ray a visit to lhe icaanry islands daring lis voyage on ihe new hamburg american liner impeialor strike-bound car lines ie fails to start wheels to day mystery veiling identity of cum mings brothers reported purchasers causes men to de lay acceptance of wage offer schmidt's tender of union scale to wait arrival of labor chief mahon to-morrow court ac tion started to end delay while announcement was made yester day that the suburban railway and coun ty traction companies had been sold and that fires had been started in the power houses to resume operations to day no cars will run great mystery surrounds the move made by the interested parties cummings brothers were said to have bought the lines but their identity could not be es tablished early yesterday president emil g schmidt of the strike-bound lines asked the strikers it they would go to work to-day he saiif that the roads had been sold to cummings brothers who made a specialty of buying up run down traction lines for the purpose of rebuilding them one road was owned by the brothers in st louis he said he also said the new owners would pay the union scale president schmidt's request was taken under advisement with a promise that au answer would be given as soon as pos sible then international president w d mahon who is in detroit was called up by telephone and asked what the strikers should do it was explained that the situation was so peculiar that his ad vice was necessary before any contract could be made with cummings brothers mahon here to-morrow who are the cummings brothers asked mahon he was told thta nobody knew then he said thta he would be in Chicago to-morrow to investigate the of fer in the meantime the strikers were told to remain out president schmidt was called up by phone last night and asked for informa tion concerning cummings brothers it was said that he was too ill to come to the phone but he sent word that the firm's name could be found in the tele phone directory president schmidt was mistaken there was no firm of that name in the directory and a score of people of that name were called up who had never heard of the firm a telegram to st louis brought the information that no such firm as cummings brothers was known there in connection with street car lines or otherwise president schmidt was again called up but he could not be asked for informa tion as he was said to be asleep and could not be disturbed in his weakened , condition high salaries assailed several attempts have been made iu i the last few days to iuduce carmen to return to work the sale of the prop erty to cummings brothers was con sidered by the strikers to be another move to bring about an end of the strike president schmidt receives 1,250 per month and the superintendent of the â– strike-bound lines has been paid 300 a i month other salaries correspond these enormous salaries are pointed out by i the strikers as the cause of the refusal â€¢ of the companies to pay nuion wages [ it was said by the strikers that when the consolidated traction company was in existence the highest salary paid its officials was 173 a month three petitious were presented to judge petit yesterday praying that he order ' receiver schmidt to resume operations on the suburban railway lines they will be heard saturday morning evanston will not municipalize its street railways corporation counsel joseph fc mcnabb reported to the city council last night that the question of municipal own ership would have to be referred to the referendum the whole matter was then ' dropped it is believed the Chicago rail ways company will get a franchise over 1 the evanston streets and collect two lares to the city recovering nicely billie burke wires telegraphs from carlsbad she was threatened with appendicitis special cable to th examiner london july 10 miss billie burke telegraphing the london bureau of lhe Chicago examiner to-day from carlsbad in reply to an inquiry concerning her health sav thanks awmr.v was threatened with i appendicitis but have not had lo under ' go operation i covering nicely jl _ . i m l^h^^^^^fl half billion of american capital driven into canada in single year rrihe bureau of foreign and domestic commerce at washington j gives the following remarkable statistics showing how amer ican capital has been driven to canada by an unwise reciprocity policy v s capital invested in canada 1905-1909 279,075,000 it s capital invested in canada 1911 417,143,221 tt s capital invested in canada 1913 500,000,000 full statistics were made by the british board of trade at toronto in may 1911 and these detailed estimates of american inves ments were then given out 209 companies with an average capital of 600,000 5125,400,000 investments in british columbia mills and timber 65,000,000 investments in british columbi a mines 60,000,000 land deal in prairie provinces 25,000,000 investments in lumber and mines in the prairie prov inces 10,000,000 facking plants â€¢ â€¢ 6,000,000 agricultural implements distributing houses 6,575,000 land deals in british columbia 8.500,000 municipal bonds sold privately 27,000,000 investments in canada of united states insurance com panies 43,293,221 miscellaneous industrial investments 10,000,000 purchase of city and town property 15,525,000 investments in the maritime provinces 12,850,000 girl missing 22 years is sought as an heiress examiner asked to locate tdith howard student in 1891 at acad emy of our lady longwood the examiner was asked yesterday to search for edith howard said to be of Chicago who through me death of her father w h howard of akron 0 ib heiress to a small fortune the last trace of miss howard goes back to february 10 1891 when she was a student at the academy of our lady at longwood on that date the girl wrote to her father then in the theatrical busi ness in Chicago and living at 1632 south michigan avenue it was the letter of a little schoolgirl to her parent but it furnishes the only clew through which she may be traced father leaves no wiu the father died june 10 last in the howard hotel akron which he owned richard lenke manager of the hotel had heard mr howard talk of his daughter and after the funeral sought to find her there was no will and no other relatives could be found at last lenke wrote to the examiner asking aid in finding the missiug girl if she is dead then some of the friends she had when living will know of it and may be able to furnish us with the information necessary to finally set tle the estate he wrote sister remembers gill the letter from the girl to her father was postmarked in longwood inquiry among the older sisters at the academy of our lady yesterday resulted in the finding of one sister who had taught edith howard twenty-two years ago edith howard left the academy soou after the date on which the letter waa written she said she continued to live in longwood however for several years about twelve years ago she left the village and moved to west pullman i believe she married other sisters at the academy also re membered the girl the search to locate friends who knew edith howard more i intimately after her graduation from the i academy is to be continued flood traps miners 10 saved 5 missing cloudburst rushes over minnesota town snd drowns men at work eveleth minn july 16 fifteen miners all men with families were trapped in spruce mine no 1 here this morning by the rush of waters from a cloudburst that deluged the city ten were rescued alive at sp m the others are believed to be dead but rescuers are working iu one-hour shifts blasting through a wall iu an upper drift while the mine pumps are draining the work ings two hundred and fifty men went into the mine this morning llain tbeu was falling in torrents toward 10 o'clock the storm increased in severity suddeuly it seemed to overwhelm the mine and city and swept down the suafe b.v tons the pumps were useless some of the miners reached stations where they could be hoisted to the sur face win-s of the me u fought ci-cws erecting bulkheads to shut off the wtter ithe women thought their husbands lebances of escape were being lessened wiee no 2 sues 30,000 hubby no 1 divorced freeman worth ington butts sweetest boy to one actress disappoints two helpmeets f'remau wortnington butts who gained the title of the siio.ooo husband at ihe t ; â– i . Â»__ of his first marriage and who became kuown as the sweetest boy in Chicago when he was divorced here in 1008 is now being sued a second time for divorce the action is brought by mrs geotgianna kittmann butts in new york she has a bundle of letters to butts signed bunnie upon which she bases some of her charges butts has a large circle of acquaint ances in Chicago as his business in cleveland brings him here frequently he was styled the 30,000 husband be cause mrs susan app gave that sum to her husband so she could get a di vorce i-'id marry butts photo figures in suit when later s_.ie sought to divorce butts she showed a plioto.^riph of an actress upou which butts w__s addressed by the actress as the sweetest boy in asking alimony and counsel fees yes terday the second mrs butts to the court that three weeks after she had mar ried butts he left her locked in her apartment without food while he went to a lake resort with miss eleanor churchill who had been friendly with her for several years mrs butts asserted that the janitor had to break down a door so that she could get food she found where butts was and telephoned him to return but charges that he did not for several days she also says miss churchill returned with him and that their cloth ug was mixed in one suitcase show notess from grl notes alleged to have been written by miss churchill were introduced as fol lows so much loved one dear and longed for a nice long letter to-morrow as i have so much to do this evening as ever most lovingly your buxxie sweetheart so lonely dear i do miss you and why did you break the engagement waited for some time dear let me hear from you soon your devoted but heartbroken bunnie fear mileage grab loss washington july 16 realizing there is a strong possibility of the present session of congress continuing until the regular tme begins in december mem bers of the house are worrying over the prosoci i of losing their mileage fees this means io pacific eoflst ai>m intcr mouutain members uais ranging from 400 to joo t j u.s gives away vast power signs permit for biggest water rights on record washington july 16 the largest water power permit ever issued by the department of agriculture was signed to day by secretary houston granting rights to the pacific light & power company of los angeles to operate power plants in the sierra national forest it will carry electric power mo miles to los angeles and vicinity at 150.0u0 volts said to be the highest commercial transmis sion ever attempted u s faces crisis with europeans on mexico president calls ambassador wil son home to explain the situ ation quick action now is demanded by great britain this government must either act to bring safety to foreigners or give up monroe doctrine is the sentiment in europe day's developments in the mexican situation â– * â€” ambassador henry lane wilson ' was ordered by telegraph to start immediately for washington he is practically relieved from duty and in all probability will not re turn to mexico "} â€” the state department intimated -Â» that either ambassador wil son has been deceived by the huerta government or he has permitted the ; washington government to be de : ceived he will probably travel north on the battleship michigan _Â»â€” an authoritative statement that '*** the negotiations carried on with the huerta government by secretary bryan have amounted to recognition a the secretary of war and the __. * secretary of the navy n?ve informed president wilson this government is prepared to place a formidable army and navy in and about mexico the day such an ordep is received Â£" â€” ln this critical stage of affairs t secretary bryan left to-night for mountain lake park md where he will deliver a lecture to-morrow he expects to return to washington friday morning z â€” ambassador wilson left last u night for the united states j washington july 16.-president i wilson and secretary bryan thoroughly 1 aroused and alarmed by the demands ol great britain that the united states â– bring about peace in mexico sent post ' haste to-day for ambassador wilson from the city of mexico the administration now knows that england is not asking irrelevant questions about the recognition or nonrecognition of huerta trat that she la asking the united states to act up to or i_y>andon the mon roe doctrine as to mexico the european nations led and probably egged i,a by great britain demand that the united state make peace promptly in mexico or let tber nations cut the core knot of mexican international politics and^lali a cles \. a storm bursts suddenly the administration realizes that elthec ' this government has not been kept n formed of the international pl 0 . going on in mexico city or that it has been mis informed by some of its important agents in mexico city as to what was happei_in s under their very eyes notwithstanding the positive statements thnt ambassador wilson has been eallvl here for consultation with the president it is very well understood that he is comnig here for explanation because to a certainty the stor mat mexico city burst on the state department and the white house suddenly in all its dangerous importance and potentialities for pro Â«| i tracted trouble the Chicago examiner is in positijj to state that great britain is th juaticn which has served formal notice on tha . state department that there mus a peace in mexico and with this goes 1h necessary statement that the united . states must bring about this peace oi , | that great britain acting co-jointly with ' the nations represented at mexico city l will bring about tbat peace whether thi ( united states participates in the oct or i j not demand action at once great britain is ou record in the peru viau putumayo dispute some months a^.j | as admitting and pointing out that it ij ; the duty of the united states to deal v _ the western continent republics the trouble in this case however 14 that the duty of the united states as it ll understood by great britain and hi diplomatic corps in mexico city has ntt - been performed ami lei.l.ci pros ia j 1 hie lulled states or uii.vjh nation has been informed since h 4 a t wh__t i ml j the best newspaper for the best home Chicago and vicinity gen erally fair thursday and friday ex iv/?Â«l ri cept probably a local thunder show j \ h l^^f jl er thursday afternoon or night v^frj^t cooler by thursday night moderate i | lj 1 . Ã¼b?t i southerly winds becoming variable i i i ranee of temperatures yesterday '. i j \ ji i highest 9 ?*' ft,ijl i lowest 6s i bai2 j3~2 e average so if you have a spark of emotion in your soul you will re proach yourself if you fail to read the opening chapters of the sunday examiner's two great midsummer fiction offerings adam's clay the story of a soulless coquette and the hearts she broke by cosmo hamilton author of the blindness of virtue and the plot for the pennant a baseball romance by hugh s fullerton as a double treat for irs readers the examiner will start both of these stories next sunday july 20 the examiner's s'.vorn statement of circuirtfciort i'or may ay.r.'t.z number of codiaa of -\:\\ issue oi this publication ioid or iÂ«i-_"('.u_<.d thro.:â€ž-_i the snails or otherwise to paid bftbscrllierc jtrrins th o_o:'i.i jf may daily examiner 241,722 sunday examiner 599,224

Chicago examiner thursday Chicago july 17 1913 thursday registered in u s patent office price one cent ffgk'&ses vol xl no 178 a m mayor insists aldermen end useless delay on the subway demands instant action by the council committee on the 130,000,000 ordinances for people's vote in the fall harrison prepares two bills and declares he will not take the responsibility for delay dock plan is ready mayor harrison having carried to the very verge of completion his plan for hhe purchase of the rights of the Chicago canal s dock company and the adoption t>f his harbor plan yesterday started after the council's local transportation com mittee and demanded instant action on the subway i am now going to insist that yon act on these subway ordinances without any further monkey jusiness he told the committee the mayor has been working hard to pet into form two ordiuances to be sub mitted to the people at the spring elec tion from which they may take their choice one provides for subways in the downtown district ouly the other for a comprehensive subway based on the city's needs for many years to come and to cost i:_o,ooo,coo capitain seeks delay aidermau capitain voiced a desire for further delay to get the report of the mjpervising engineers which is expected to be ready iu the fall this stirred the mayor up still more the subway project has beeu before you gentlemen for years he said we have chased up hill and down lale and after all this time we find ourselves right back where we started ever since i have been in office i have urged this committee to draft alter native ordiuances and let the people take their choice the committee seemed un able to draw the ordiuances so i had j them drawn myself having drawn them i am going to in sist that you act on them without any more monkey business i don't intend co have it said that i was the cause of the failure if the subways are not built the administration will uot be to blame â€” that will be plain before i get through if you wait until fall for that en gineer's report these ordinances cannot be submitted to the people until 1915 or 1927 or more likely until we are all ly ing iu graceland or calvary cemetery yield to mayor after devoting the afternoon to consid ering the mayor's comprehensive subway system it was decided to refer both ordi nances to a subcommittee of whieh alder man block will be chairman corporation counsel yesterday prepared a new ordinance designed to compel the â€¢ surface and l cars and steam surbur ban trains to provide seats for all passen gers the ordinances recently passed were held unconstitutional by he courts chairman littler of the committee on harbors wharves and bridges announced yesterday that his committee will to-day report favorably on the mayor's plan and that without a doubt the council will adopt it monday so that the harbor af fair is off the mayor's hands all the members of our committee are ln favor of paying the dock company its price 300,000 said aldirnan littler mrs f e musgrove who sued dr g e fosberg her brother-in-law for 50,000 for alleged de famation of character to end hypnotic spell she says he has over his wife u s examiner run down by automobile socked unconscious by j a pat terson's car in state street ,'. e settle jr special examiner for interstate commerce commission rings at the federal buildiug was ack and injured last night by au auto obile at south state street and jack boulevard lc was unconscious when friends ebe hiiu and was token to st luke's spital thera he revived and later s removed to ills rooms at the con ss hotel he automobile war owned auu oper il by j a patterson 1025 north ty-srst avcuue he stopped his ma ne and removed mr settle to the hos al icorgo sutton a shorthand reported the interstate commerce cowraumlon i a gu.-kt ::! tin h..t_j 5 jul 4.c cpaajp s â– ;',._Â« 1 the late br â€¢ neaped sues doctor to end spell over his wife sister-in-law asks 50,000 for al leged defamation of character dr g e fosberg 321 kimbark ave nue yesterday was sued for 50,000 for alleged defamation of character by his sister-in-law mrs f e musgrove uu2 stewart avenue she admits she has small hope of win nivg her suit but hopes to turn the light on the doctor's past and break what she declares is a hypnotic hold he bas ou his wife dr fosberg attained considerable pub licity several days ago in what is called the red mull escapade at the fifty-third street station of the Illinois central railroad he met one of the most beautiful woiren i ever saw said mrs fosberg she was dressed all iu red mull the affair grew so excitiug that the police had to interfere and they took two revolvers from the doctor boss cox freed of bank fraud charge case against former olitical leader is dismissed cincinnati 0 july 16 judge cald well in the common pleas court to-day dismissed the case against george b cox the former political leader cox was on trial on a charge of misap plying 115,000 of the funds of the cin cinnati trust company the trial had been u progress three weeks when at the conclusion of the state's testimony attorney dinsmore for cox asked for au instructed verdict of not guilty kaiser's son-in-law near death by train berlin july 16 â€” prince ernest of cumberland who recently married the kaiser's only daughter narrowly escaped death to-day at rathcuow where he has just poincd his regiment the prince leading his troop to exer cise was crossing a railroad when an ex press approached the horses plunged but the prince managed to pull him orf the track and halt the troop while the train passed missing his charged by inches woman's civic council points cooper report decides to circulate a pamphlet | containing results of in vestigation ' i public to get the facts s i i club startled by revelations de fense claims law and not ' court is to blame the woman's civic council of Chicago which has been investigating the record of judge william fenimore cooper lo his ' conduct of cases involving attacks on children and women met last night it was decided that the best method of making public the result of their investi gation is to issue the record in pamphlet form formal action was taken author izing the publication of such a document and instructions isued that it be distrib uted in every civic and philanthropic so ciety or institution throughout the city calls criticism just we have made a careful and unbiased investigation into fifty-three cases involv ing attacks on young girls said chair man dr lillian e thompson every one of these all tried before judge cooper has been the subject of com plaint and we have discovered justly so it is a record to cause the good women of Chicago fo shudder the mothers of the city have uot the power of the recall fteuher can they recommend punishment but they can guard against the future the motion that a summary of judge coopers record iu these cases be made public in pamphlet form wah made by mrs catherine rutherford lt received instant indorsement and when put to a vote was passed unanimously what bas takeu place iu the past can not be helped said mrs rutherford we can do something to safeguard the future rt i our duty to inform those who are interested in bringing to jus tice those who attack helpless children the best war to accomplish this result is to expose htose courts which have shown themselves indulgent to such of fenders i move that we publish a pamphlet embodying judge cooper's rec ord blame put on laws mrs frederick h green a member of the council severely criticised mrs ger trude howe britton ot the juvenile court can mrs britton explain why she came to the defense of the negro who attacked the seventy-three-year-old wom an mrs britton holds a position where justice is expected of her by those in every walk of life judge cooper ignored an appeal made by the council at a previous meeting that he make answer to the charges against him however at last night's neeting a document was submitted in lis defense by mrs blanch grier a stenographer sometimes employed in judge cooper's court it reviewed ni detail some of the fifty-three cases of which the civic coun cil has complained it was remarked that mitigating circumstauces were used in place of outright denials the trouble is not with the courts concluded mrs grier in her document but with the laws which ihey must ad minister it is my opinion that judge cooper dictated that document declared mrs green according to chairman thompson the council will continue its activities and ! make an investigation into the records of â€¢ other courts bridges is poet laureate special cable to the examiner london july ig the new british poet laureate is dr robert bridges who was appointed by premier asquith to-day to take the place of the late alfred aus tin besides being a poet and literary msn dr bridges practiced medicine for many years he is sixty-eight years old agreement reached to retire u s 2s currency bill probably to be amended to suit mcadoo's plan washington july 16 an agree ment has been reached by the majority of the house banking and currency com mittee to amend the money bill in hoe with secretary mcadoo's suggestions so as to retire the government 2 per cent bonds within twenty years at he rae of 5 per cent a year the amount outstanding every year shall retain circulating privileges that is national banks may issue currency against them the 2 per cent bonds retired each year however shall be replaced with 3 per cent bonds without this circulating privilege it wa salso agreed that the government revenue from the operations of the fed eral reserve liakuing system created by the bill should be set apart to redeem the 2 and â€¢" per cent bonds mob drives forty japs from camp threaten hanging if they return orientals to appeal steamboat springs col july 16 â€” a mob of one hundred men working ou the moffat road attempted to run forty japanese labcrers from the grading camp to-day - the japs were brought here from denver and had been housed in box cars at the lower end of town the mob went to the place three of them impersonatting officers for the pur pose of gaining entrance to the cars as soon as the doors were thrown open the mob poured into the cars with ropes slugs and revolvers ordered the japs to dress and leave the mob conducted the japs two miles east of town and told them that if they returned ropes would be used to-night sh_iÂ»fr m_ivington arrested the leaders the japanese will appeal marshall to return his borrowed baby vice president will take young ster back to its parents washington july 16.-there is a weeping and walling in the marshall household and the vice president has lost much of his accustomed cheerfulness for the borrowed baby thomas mar shall sutherland is going home baby sutherland has been for two mouths the light and sunshine of the vice presidential apartment but now he misses mama and mama misses him so that reluctantly the vice president and mrs marshall are going to take him to berkley springs md and return him to his parents the itev dr and mrs a d sutherland every day the vice president and the borrowed baby have been a prett ysight roaming about the capitol king finds lost ms heeds museum order british ruler receives peremptory requsst for valuable document special cable te the examiner london july 16 an order from the british museum asking king george to return at once a borrowed manuscript worth over a quarter of a million dollars came to light to-day when the king after spending 150 for the expenses of mes sengers recovered the manuscript and turned it over to the museum authorities the manuscript is a history of prus sia written in the fourteenth century the english sovereign has the exclu sive privilege of taking books from the museum any volume obtained by him however must be returned within three days and the grand duke of mecklen burg-strelitz uuawarc of this rule had borrowed it friends to bury girl suicide shun mother body of parent blamed for death to be given college mabel shultz who drowned herself last week has found friends iu death and will be given fitting burial but the body of her mother who killed herself after seeing her dead daughter will be given to medical students rela tives and friends bitter because they say she caused the girl to end her life re fused yesterday to provide for a funeral for the mother mabel's friends where she worked yes terday raised money for a grave iu oak nidge cemetery william unity manager of the western casket & undertaking company will donate the shrond and coffin imperator trip for kaiser german emperec expected to visit canary islands on voyage special cable to the examiner ma i >. july hi â€” a clegiam from tciiciifi'r today stated lliat e i.peror wil | ham probably will ray a visit to lhe icaanry islands daring lis voyage on ihe new hamburg american liner impeialor strike-bound car lines ie fails to start wheels to day mystery veiling identity of cum mings brothers reported purchasers causes men to de lay acceptance of wage offer schmidt's tender of union scale to wait arrival of labor chief mahon to-morrow court ac tion started to end delay while announcement was made yester day that the suburban railway and coun ty traction companies had been sold and that fires had been started in the power houses to resume operations to day no cars will run great mystery surrounds the move made by the interested parties cummings brothers were said to have bought the lines but their identity could not be es tablished early yesterday president emil g schmidt of the strike-bound lines asked the strikers it they would go to work to-day he saiif that the roads had been sold to cummings brothers who made a specialty of buying up run down traction lines for the purpose of rebuilding them one road was owned by the brothers in st louis he said he also said the new owners would pay the union scale president schmidt's request was taken under advisement with a promise that au answer would be given as soon as pos sible then international president w d mahon who is in detroit was called up by telephone and asked what the strikers should do it was explained that the situation was so peculiar that his ad vice was necessary before any contract could be made with cummings brothers mahon here to-morrow who are the cummings brothers asked mahon he was told thta nobody knew then he said thta he would be in Chicago to-morrow to investigate the of fer in the meantime the strikers were told to remain out president schmidt was called up by phone last night and asked for informa tion concerning cummings brothers it was said that he was too ill to come to the phone but he sent word that the firm's name could be found in the tele phone directory president schmidt was mistaken there was no firm of that name in the directory and a score of people of that name were called up who had never heard of the firm a telegram to st louis brought the information that no such firm as cummings brothers was known there in connection with street car lines or otherwise president schmidt was again called up but he could not be asked for informa tion as he was said to be asleep and could not be disturbed in his weakened , condition high salaries assailed several attempts have been made iu i the last few days to iuduce carmen to return to work the sale of the prop erty to cummings brothers was con sidered by the strikers to be another move to bring about an end of the strike president schmidt receives 1,250 per month and the superintendent of the â– strike-bound lines has been paid 300 a i month other salaries correspond these enormous salaries are pointed out by i the strikers as the cause of the refusal â€¢ of the companies to pay nuion wages [ it was said by the strikers that when the consolidated traction company was in existence the highest salary paid its officials was 173 a month three petitious were presented to judge petit yesterday praying that he order ' receiver schmidt to resume operations on the suburban railway lines they will be heard saturday morning evanston will not municipalize its street railways corporation counsel joseph fc mcnabb reported to the city council last night that the question of municipal own ership would have to be referred to the referendum the whole matter was then ' dropped it is believed the Chicago rail ways company will get a franchise over 1 the evanston streets and collect two lares to the city recovering nicely billie burke wires telegraphs from carlsbad she was threatened with appendicitis special cable to th examiner london july 10 miss billie burke telegraphing the london bureau of lhe Chicago examiner to-day from carlsbad in reply to an inquiry concerning her health sav thanks awmr.v was threatened with i appendicitis but have not had lo under ' go operation i covering nicely jl _ . i m l^h^^^^^fl half billion of american capital driven into canada in single year rrihe bureau of foreign and domestic commerce at washington j gives the following remarkable statistics showing how amer ican capital has been driven to canada by an unwise reciprocity policy v s capital invested in canada 1905-1909 279,075,000 it s capital invested in canada 1911 417,143,221 tt s capital invested in canada 1913 500,000,000 full statistics were made by the british board of trade at toronto in may 1911 and these detailed estimates of american inves ments were then given out 209 companies with an average capital of 600,000 5125,400,000 investments in british columbia mills and timber 65,000,000 investments in british columbi a mines 60,000,000 land deal in prairie provinces 25,000,000 investments in lumber and mines in the prairie prov inces 10,000,000 facking plants â€¢ â€¢ 6,000,000 agricultural implements distributing houses 6,575,000 land deals in british columbia 8.500,000 municipal bonds sold privately 27,000,000 investments in canada of united states insurance com panies 43,293,221 miscellaneous industrial investments 10,000,000 purchase of city and town property 15,525,000 investments in the maritime provinces 12,850,000 girl missing 22 years is sought as an heiress examiner asked to locate tdith howard student in 1891 at acad emy of our lady longwood the examiner was asked yesterday to search for edith howard said to be of Chicago who through me death of her father w h howard of akron 0 ib heiress to a small fortune the last trace of miss howard goes back to february 10 1891 when she was a student at the academy of our lady at longwood on that date the girl wrote to her father then in the theatrical busi ness in Chicago and living at 1632 south michigan avenue it was the letter of a little schoolgirl to her parent but it furnishes the only clew through which she may be traced father leaves no wiu the father died june 10 last in the howard hotel akron which he owned richard lenke manager of the hotel had heard mr howard talk of his daughter and after the funeral sought to find her there was no will and no other relatives could be found at last lenke wrote to the examiner asking aid in finding the missiug girl if she is dead then some of the friends she had when living will know of it and may be able to furnish us with the information necessary to finally set tle the estate he wrote sister remembers gill the letter from the girl to her father was postmarked in longwood inquiry among the older sisters at the academy of our lady yesterday resulted in the finding of one sister who had taught edith howard twenty-two years ago edith howard left the academy soou after the date on which the letter waa written she said she continued to live in longwood however for several years about twelve years ago she left the village and moved to west pullman i believe she married other sisters at the academy also re membered the girl the search to locate friends who knew edith howard more i intimately after her graduation from the i academy is to be continued flood traps miners 10 saved 5 missing cloudburst rushes over minnesota town snd drowns men at work eveleth minn july 16 fifteen miners all men with families were trapped in spruce mine no 1 here this morning by the rush of waters from a cloudburst that deluged the city ten were rescued alive at sp m the others are believed to be dead but rescuers are working iu one-hour shifts blasting through a wall iu an upper drift while the mine pumps are draining the work ings two hundred and fifty men went into the mine this morning llain tbeu was falling in torrents toward 10 o'clock the storm increased in severity suddeuly it seemed to overwhelm the mine and city and swept down the suafe b.v tons the pumps were useless some of the miners reached stations where they could be hoisted to the sur face win-s of the me u fought ci-cws erecting bulkheads to shut off the wtter ithe women thought their husbands lebances of escape were being lessened wiee no 2 sues 30,000 hubby no 1 divorced freeman worth ington butts sweetest boy to one actress disappoints two helpmeets f'remau wortnington butts who gained the title of the siio.ooo husband at ihe t ; â– i . Â»__ of his first marriage and who became kuown as the sweetest boy in Chicago when he was divorced here in 1008 is now being sued a second time for divorce the action is brought by mrs geotgianna kittmann butts in new york she has a bundle of letters to butts signed bunnie upon which she bases some of her charges butts has a large circle of acquaint ances in Chicago as his business in cleveland brings him here frequently he was styled the 30,000 husband be cause mrs susan app gave that sum to her husband so she could get a di vorce i-'id marry butts photo figures in suit when later s_.ie sought to divorce butts she showed a plioto.^riph of an actress upou which butts w__s addressed by the actress as the sweetest boy in asking alimony and counsel fees yes terday the second mrs butts to the court that three weeks after she had mar ried butts he left her locked in her apartment without food while he went to a lake resort with miss eleanor churchill who had been friendly with her for several years mrs butts asserted that the janitor had to break down a door so that she could get food she found where butts was and telephoned him to return but charges that he did not for several days she also says miss churchill returned with him and that their cloth ug was mixed in one suitcase show notess from grl notes alleged to have been written by miss churchill were introduced as fol lows so much loved one dear and longed for a nice long letter to-morrow as i have so much to do this evening as ever most lovingly your buxxie sweetheart so lonely dear i do miss you and why did you break the engagement waited for some time dear let me hear from you soon your devoted but heartbroken bunnie fear mileage grab loss washington july 16 realizing there is a strong possibility of the present session of congress continuing until the regular tme begins in december mem bers of the house are worrying over the prosoci i of losing their mileage fees this means io pacific eoflst ai>m intcr mouutain members uais ranging from 400 to joo t j u.s gives away vast power signs permit for biggest water rights on record washington july 16 the largest water power permit ever issued by the department of agriculture was signed to day by secretary houston granting rights to the pacific light & power company of los angeles to operate power plants in the sierra national forest it will carry electric power mo miles to los angeles and vicinity at 150.0u0 volts said to be the highest commercial transmis sion ever attempted u s faces crisis with europeans on mexico president calls ambassador wil son home to explain the situ ation quick action now is demanded by great britain this government must either act to bring safety to foreigners or give up monroe doctrine is the sentiment in europe day's developments in the mexican situation â– * â€” ambassador henry lane wilson ' was ordered by telegraph to start immediately for washington he is practically relieved from duty and in all probability will not re turn to mexico "} â€” the state department intimated -Â» that either ambassador wil son has been deceived by the huerta government or he has permitted the ; washington government to be de : ceived he will probably travel north on the battleship michigan _Â»â€” an authoritative statement that '*** the negotiations carried on with the huerta government by secretary bryan have amounted to recognition a the secretary of war and the __. * secretary of the navy n?ve informed president wilson this government is prepared to place a formidable army and navy in and about mexico the day such an ordep is received Â£" â€” ln this critical stage of affairs t secretary bryan left to-night for mountain lake park md where he will deliver a lecture to-morrow he expects to return to washington friday morning z â€” ambassador wilson left last u night for the united states j washington july 16.-president i wilson and secretary bryan thoroughly 1 aroused and alarmed by the demands ol great britain that the united states â– bring about peace in mexico sent post ' haste to-day for ambassador wilson from the city of mexico the administration now knows that england is not asking irrelevant questions about the recognition or nonrecognition of huerta trat that she la asking the united states to act up to or i_y>andon the mon roe doctrine as to mexico the european nations led and probably egged i,a by great britain demand that the united state make peace promptly in mexico or let tber nations cut the core knot of mexican international politics and^lali a cles \. a storm bursts suddenly the administration realizes that elthec ' this government has not been kept n formed of the international pl 0 . going on in mexico city or that it has been mis informed by some of its important agents in mexico city as to what was happei_in s under their very eyes notwithstanding the positive statements thnt ambassador wilson has been eallvl here for consultation with the president it is very well understood that he is comnig here for explanation because to a certainty the stor mat mexico city burst on the state department and the white house suddenly in all its dangerous importance and potentialities for pro Â«| i tracted trouble the Chicago examiner is in positijj to state that great britain is th juaticn which has served formal notice on tha . state department that there mus a peace in mexico and with this goes 1h necessary statement that the united . states must bring about this peace oi , | that great britain acting co-jointly with ' the nations represented at mexico city l will bring about tbat peace whether thi ( united states participates in the oct or i j not demand action at once great britain is ou record in the peru viau putumayo dispute some months a^.j | as admitting and pointing out that it ij ; the duty of the united states to deal v _ the western continent republics the trouble in this case however 14 that the duty of the united states as it ll understood by great britain and hi diplomatic corps in mexico city has ntt - been performed ami lei.l.ci pros ia j 1 hie lulled states or uii.vjh nation has been informed since h 4 a t wh__t i ml j the best newspaper for the best home Chicago and vicinity gen erally fair thursday and friday ex iv/?Â«l ri cept probably a local thunder show j \ h l^^f jl er thursday afternoon or night v^frj^t cooler by thursday night moderate i | lj 1 . Ã¼b?t i southerly winds becoming variable i i i ranee of temperatures yesterday '. i j \ ji i highest 9 ?*' ft,ijl i lowest 6s i bai2 j3~2 e average so if you have a spark of emotion in your soul you will re proach yourself if you fail to read the opening chapters of the sunday examiner's two great midsummer fiction offerings adam's clay the story of a soulless coquette and the hearts she broke by cosmo hamilton author of the blindness of virtue and the plot for the pennant a baseball romance by hugh s fullerton as a double treat for irs readers the examiner will start both of these stories next sunday july 20 the examiner's s'.vorn statement of circuirtfciort i'or may ay.r.'t.z number of codiaa of -\:\\ issue oi this publication ioid or iÂ«i-_"('.u_